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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium
Bridges
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium
Bridges
An exploration of the enormous impact that the Persian Wars, fought in the fifth century BC, have had on Western ideas of history, liberty, resistance, and national identity. Sixteen internationally acclaimed classical scholars discuss treatments of these famous wars in art, theatre, philosophy, poetry, biography, and modern cinema and fiction.
472 pages, numerous halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 15, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780199279678 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 462 |
Dimensions | 160 × 240 × 25 mm · 931 g |
Editor | Bridges, Emma (, Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University) |
Editor | Hall, Edith (, Professor of Classics and Drama, Royal Holloway, and Co-Director, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford) |
Editor | Rhodes, P. J. (, Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham) |
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